Searching for a Balance

"Be your own accuser, and He will be your pardoner."                                             -  St. Augustine

At one of the thrift stores last week, I found a basket with a handle, just right for a grab-and-go sewing kit. The contents are a lit...

I'm finally finishing up a summer dress I started way back when; I'm ready to hem it. I had pinned this image from Anna's webs...

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in...

We're absolutely swimming in tomatoes. Which is a pretty nice thing. But it's not so much that I need to find a way to preserve t...

If we were sitting across from one another and talking, if you looked at my bare feet for any length of time, I'd start to worry you mig...

"[The Blessed Mother]...leads us to see in each other all the little virtues which make us dear to her, if we are sincere in our love o...

Since I love linen and cotton so much, I am ironing two or three times a week. But I'm in trouble now, since a little cat has come into ...

I'm a little bit thrilled to have found a new soup recipe that's really delicious (even though I had to turn on the AC to make it)....

"Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?"  - Hilaire Belloc, "Tarantella" Yes, do you remember an Inn, Miranda, Wher...

How lively a household can be with a little one running around! But I've started a pinterest board for soft Christmas ornament ideas.

May the God of infinite goodness scatter the darkness of sin and brighten our hearts with holiness. Amen.                                 ...

I didn't always know that I could plug my tablet into the boombox or stereo to get better and louder sound. For under ten bucks, the cos...

Gretchen  mentioned in a comment that she used a soup recipe from Laurel's Kitchen to use up the summer squash when it starts piling up....

Can you guess? It seems we're keeping her. Annie, the orphan. Unless, of course, someone appears who has a claim to her. How do the...

God, be in our thinking, always as a guide, God, be in our yearning, high and deep and wide; God, be in our caring, with us intertwined...

I was just thinking that it took Mr. Kibble for us to get to know Diane and Bill a little, and now we would probably slip back into our rou...

Diane called not long after we got home from Mass - Mr. Kibble wasn't doing well; she thought we might want him for a while to say our g...

I've been reading a lot lately, I guess - and too preoccupied to post here.... "I now think the rampant individualism of our cur...

We strive with all our strength and soul To do what life requires, And somehow while we're on the way Fulfill our hearts' des...

A few days of excessive heat with air conditioner running morning and night; fit for eating light meals, quiet indoor activities and ple...

Awake, our souls! away, our fears! Let every trembling thought be gone! Awake, and run the heavenly race, And put a cheerful courage ...

Another one of the pleasures of summer.

Yesterday the produce from the garden starting to roll in. We were going to have Reuben sandwiches, so I decided to also make some of the Ne...

"Being on a pilgrimage also means to recognize our need for each other. When we walk together we need one another's help. When one ...

The hydrangea is stunning this summer. I had left it alone, which seems to be what it likes. Last year I made the mistake of cutting th...

"To go on a pilgrimage means to embrace our spiritual poverty because a pilgrim is one who accepts God's call to be poor in spirit....

Notice the above dress - notice how wrinkled. There's a story, probably as dumb as this one . This dress is pretty new; I wore it t...

"What is a pilgrimage? It is a symbol of our life that is sometimes long and sometimes brief. We do not know how long it will last, but...

We've had this set of dishes for Many Years; I believe they are from the supermarket, in the days when you could get dishes in boxes o...

"Let us hope! He who teaches us so carefully will give us the necessary grace to benefit from his lessons....  All that he tells us to ...